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Her name is pronounced


with a hard G.

I was expecting a soft G to sound like Jillian. Gillian with a hard G sounds like a strange first name for a girl.

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I thought it was unusual too. Is it an American thing? It sounds too much like Gilligan.

Get on the scale! Get off the scale.

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I've just been listening to her DVD commentary for 30 Rock and Donald Glover called her Gill -ian and I thought that he'd mispronounced it as I've never heard it pronounced like that before, but I guess that's how she says it.

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Yes. I came here to say the same thing after hearing Alison Brie pronounce her name as such on Craig Ferguson. I've never heard such a name before in my life.

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I do think it's less usual too. Yet that's also how the wildly popular writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Dark Places) pronounces her name too.

Maybe the Hard G Gillians are on to something...

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What do fish have? Gills. Who went up the hill with Jack? Jill. Seems reasonable to me. 

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Yeah that *beep* is *beep* *beep*

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